The powerful storyteller Feridun Zaimoglu on Martin Luther. In the year 1521: Martin Luther has been brought to the Wartburg and returned to the monk's cell. A Catholic mercenary is tasked with protecting him, the outlaw, from threats to his life on the orders of the Elector. Yet the temptations of the old enemy, Satan, pose an even greater danger. With a resonant language, astonishing wealth of knowledge, and dramatic intensity, Feridun Zaimoglu narrates the story of a great German, a time of upheaval, and the power and powerlessness of faith.